Improved self-cementing band foe holding bank-notes, papers



E. M. CARRiNGTON.

Rubber Tipped Paper Bands. No. 81,339. Patented Aug. 25, 1868.

ELIJAH M. CARRINGTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 81,339, dated August 25, 1868.

IMPROVED SELF-GEMENTING BAND FOR HOLDING BANK-NOTES, PAPERS, dtc.

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Be it known that I, .ELIJAII M. CARRINGTON, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and improved Bands for Encircling Bank-Notes and other Papers and Analogous Packages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

I provide strips of paper or other flexible material with an adhesive coating at each end, united by simple pressure of one adhesive surface'upon the other after the band has been folded around the package.

I will now proceedto describe what I consider the best means of carrying out my invention, and will afterwards designate the points which I believe to be new The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification. v

Figure 1 is a face view of one of my bands extended.

Figure 2 is an edge view of the same.

Figure 3 is the same partly bent.

Figure 4 is the same bent nearly around, to enclose aparcel of bank-notes or the like.

Figures 5 and 6 show the same-in two conditions, illustrating the extent to which the size of a band may vary, or rather the variationsin the sizes of the package which may be enclosed. Fig. 5 shows the band in its smallest capacity, that is to say, if it were wound tightly around a parcel a little smaller, the adhesive surfaces would not meet. Fig. 6 shows the same band extended to its utmost.-

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

-A.-is a strip of stout paper, which forms the body of the band. I'apply on onc'facc of the band, at one end, an adhesive coating, a, and on the other face ofthe band, at the other end, an adhesive coating, at, making the latter coating extend over a considerably less length of the band A than the former.

The hands, after being thus prepared, may be kept for. a long period or transported to any distance without losing their valuable properties. When it is required to use one, the papers or other articles which are required to be held together are laid on or about the middle of the band, and the two ends are folded over upon each other in such a manner that the adhesive surfaces a and a are presented face to face. In this position a simple pressure of the thumb upon the junction causes the adhesive surfaces to stick together with sufiicient firmness for all general purposes.

- I make my adhesive coating by dissolving India rubber in benzino, naphtha, or an analogous solvent, and I apply it by a' brush to the paper and allow it to dry. I-pi'eior to gum the papcr'in shcets, and afterwards to divide the sheets into strips, by means of long-bladed shears or analogous devices. I can gum a great quantity of the shoots at once, by laying them lapping upon each other, as will be'readily understood. The solvent evaporates rapidly, and leaves a coating of gum, in a slightly sticky or-tacky state,'on the surfzicc of the paper.

The surfaces at and a are sufficiently sticky to adhere together when pressed into contact with each other, but neither of them will adhere to plain paper or to other ordinary unprepared surfaces. I make one of the tacky surfaces, a, longer than the tacky surface of", in order to allow them a considerable range of sizes to be encompassed by the same band, as will be readily understood.

I can use thin lcathcr,parchment, muslin, paper backed with muslin, vegetable parchment, and, in short, any material which will be sumciently strong and flexible, in place of paper, for the band A.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lettcrs'Iatent, is as'follows v The band herein described, as a new articleof manufacture, havingn body of paper, with the ends made adhesive by rubber cement, so as to serve in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E. M. CARRINGTON.

Witnesses:

W. 0. Dar, 0. G. Lrvmcs. 

